cognition
- (countable, uncountable) The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
- (countable, uncountable) Children develop cognition rapidly in their early years.
- (countable, uncountable) The study focused on animal cognition.
- (countable, uncountable) human cognition
- (countable, uncountable) social cognition
- (countable, uncountable) cognition research
- (countable) A result of a cognitive process.
- (archaic, countable, uncountable) Knowledge; awareness.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English cognicion, cognicioun from Latin cognitio (“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from co- (“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.
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